Ex-Taliban captive Bowe Bergdahl has retained his lawyer as the US Army continues to investigate his disappearance from a military base in Afghanistan in 2009.
Eugene Fidell, a civilian Yale law pedagogia, told US media he met the soldier in Texas last week.
Mr Fidell will reportedly be present when Sgt Bergdahl is queried on whether he intended to desert his unit.
The soldier was held for five years by the Taliban and relinquished in May.
'Extraordinary ordeal'
"I was very flattered when I was approached and I accepted the case with great congeniality," Mr Fidell told CNN on Wednesday.
"[Sgt Bergdahl has] gone through an extraordinary ordeal," he integrated. "He's lost five years in the most unspeakable way."
Mr Fidell withal verbally expressed he had a "cordial conversation" with Gen Kenneth Dahl, the bellwether of the Army's investigation into the circumstances circumventing Sgt Bergdahl's disappearance.
Sgt Bergdahl was relinquished in May in a swap for five Taliban commanders from Guantanamo Bay, a move some US politicians decried.
The US military earlier concluded he ambulated away from his base without sanction afore his capture, but have thus far ceased short of inculpating him of desertion.
Investigators have forbore interviewing the soldier until it is tenacious that he has consummated the reintegration process.
Earlier this week, military officials promulgated that Sgt Bergdahl was set to return to active military obligation and will take an administrative job on a Texas base.
He will take a job "commensurate to his rank" at US Army North at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston and live in officer quarters there, a base official told the BBC.
